Nicholas Ichien

Biographic Data

ID9301857
NAMENicholas Ichien
GIVEN NAMESNicholas
FAMILY NAMEIchien
SIGNATUREICHIEN N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ORCID0000-0002-0928-0809
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Analogy and the Generation of Ideas

    Keith J Holyoak, Nicholas Ichien et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2024

    Creativity is typically defined as the generation of novel and useful ideas or artifacts. This generative capacity is crucial to everyday problem solving, technological innovation, scientific discovery, and the arts. A central concern of cognitive scientists is to understand the processes that underlie human creative thinking. We review evidence that one process contributing to human creativity is the ability to generate novel representations of …

  • Cognitive complexity explains processing asymmetry in judgments of similarity versus difference

    Open AccessNicholas Ichien, Nyusha Lin et al.ARTICLECognitive Psychology2024

  • Large Language Model Displays Emergent Ability to Interpret Novel Literary Metaphors

    Open AccessNicholas Ichien, Dušan Stamenković et al.ARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2024

    Despite the exceptional performance of large language models (LLMs) on a wide range of tasks involving natural language processing and reasoning, there has been sharp disagreement as to whether their abilities extend to more creative human abilities. A core example is the interpretation of novel metaphors. Here we assessed the ability of GPT-4, a state-of-the-art large language model, to provide natural-language interpretations of a recent AI ben…

  • Relational and lexical similarity in analogical reasoning and recognition memory

    Open AccessNicholas Ichien, Katherine L Alfred et al.ARTICLECognitive Psychology2023

  • An Individual-Differences Approach to Poetic Metaphor

    Dušan Stamenković, Katarina Milenković et al.ARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2023

    Using poetic metaphors in the Serbian language, we identified systematic variations in the impact of fluid and crystalized intelligence on comprehension of metaphors that varied in rated aptness and familiarity. Overall, comprehension scores were higher for metaphors that were high rather than low in aptness, and high rather than low in familiarity. A measure of crystalized intelligence was a robust predictor of comprehension across the full rang…

  • Causal actions enhance perception of continuous body movements

    Open AccessYujia Peng, Nicholas Ichien et al.ARTICLECognition2020

  • Individual Differences in Comprehension of Contextualized Metaphors

    Dušan Stamenković, Nicholas Ichien et al.ARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2020

    We report a study examining the role of linguistic context in modulating the influences of individual differences in fluid and crystalized intelligence on comprehension of literary metaphors. Three conditions were compared: no context, metaphor-congruent context, and literal-congruent context. Relative to the baseline no-context condition, the metaphor-congruent context facilitated comprehension of the metaphorical meaning whereas the literal-con…